Beyond the Balance of Power

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A major study of French foreign and security policy before, during and after the First World War.

Résumé
This is a major study of French foreign and security policy in the era of the Great War. Peter Jackson examines the interplay between contending conceptions of security based on traditional practices of power politics and the new internationalist doctrines that emerged in the late nineteenth century.

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Introduction; Part I. The Sources of French Security Policy: 1. The social dynamics of security policy making; 2. Two approaches to security; Part II. War and the Politics of National Security, 1914: 3. The primacy of the balance of power, 1914; 4. The coming of a new world order, 1917; 5. National deliverance and post-war planning; Part III. Peace and Security, 1918: 6. The political contexts of peacemaking; 7. Towards a post-war security order; 8. The Rhineland settlement and the security of France; Part IV. Imposing Security: 9. Post-war dilemmas: enforcement or engagement?; 10. Briand and the emergence of a multilateral alternative; 11. The politics of confrontation; Part V. The Cartel des Gauches and the 'Internationalisation of Security': 12. A new approach: arbitration, security, disarmament; 13. Locarno; Conclusion.